"So what if my destiny does not have her. My heart is still filled with her and no one can empty it, not even me." ------------ I despised her. I despised how she schemed to get married to me. I despised her because of her arrogance. " Li Rui, you don't know how many times I have wished to kill you. " But all of this was my illusion. Everything was a mysterious trap of lies. A trap that was laid to trap me. "Rui, I want to protect you from this whole world. I will not ask you to love me.....just don't hate me. Hmm...." --------------- [This is an original story] Buy me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ada_5253 My other book on Webnovel - CEO He: Please Don't Love Me (Ongoing
"You mean to say that Noble Consort Shu was murdered by someone?"
"I don't know really."
The old physician answered Xi Ying's question truthfully and then continued in a daze.
"Those guards wore Imperial guards' uniform so I thought that the Imperial Family members wanted to hide something by killing my master."
Xi Ying had now taken the dagger away from the old physician and leaned against the chair he was sitting on.
He actually didn't need any answer now because all of his questions seemed to be answered.
His eyes moved to Li Rui and he asked her softly.
"What do you think?"
Li Rui's face looked equally calm. However, her eyes were not that calm at this moment. Xi Ying could see that she had understood everything but she was unable to believe that what she was thinking was true.
However, he couldn't really blame her.